They followed the trampled ground left by the warparty and in the afternoon they came upon a mule that had failed and had been lanced and left dead and then they came upon another. The way narrowed through rocks and by and by they came to a bush that was hung with dead babies.
They stopped side by side, reeling in the heat. These small victims, seven, eight of them, had holes punched in their underjaws and were hung so by their throats from the broken stobs of a mesquite to stare eyeless at the naked sky. Bald and pale and bloated, larval to some unreckonable being. The castaways hobbled past, they looked back. Nothing moved. In the afternoon they came upon a village on the plain where smoke still rose from the ruins and all were gone to death. From a distance it looked like a decaying brick kiln. They stood without the walls a long time listening to the silence before they entered.
FUCK. Blood Meridian lads, get into it.
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How do you get Last.fm onto your profile, I've tried and they're all crap.
Hook me up baby.
YES! Fucking amazing book, hard work but well worth it. None of his other stuff is quite as mindblowing though..
Have you read The Road yet?
I'm about 4 pages into it.I started it last year and kind of lost track of it, so I just started it again on the bus this morning.
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